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Cockroaches mutate to beat humans traps by losing their taste for sugar
Nature's ultimate survivor has just got that little bit tougher.Experts have found cockroaches are losing their sweet tooth - and it is going to make it much harder for us to deal with infestations.A global strain of the bugs has evolved to be repelled by the sugar we use in poisoned bait.Entomologist Jules Silverman, of North Carolina State University, said: "Cockroaches are highly ...
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Woolwich attack video Watch shocking footage of terrorists charging at police car in attempt to kill WPC
The footage obtained by the Daily Mirror reveals how, after beheading the soldier, they hatched a plot to ambush and murder the first police officers to come to his ...
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British fighter jets escort diverted Pakistani plane
LONDON — British fighter jets were scrambled to escort a Pakistan International Airlines plane to a London airport on Friday after an incident onboard, officials said. Police said the plane, which was en route from the Pakistani city of Lahore to Manchester in northwest England, landed safely at Stansted airport outside London after being diverted. ';The plane diverted to Stansted ...
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UK ordered to hold inquests into civilian deaths during Iraq war
judgment that could have an impact on how the British military is able to conduct operations among civilians in the future, the court ruled on Friday that up to 161 deaths should be the subject of hearings modelled upon coroners' inquests.In practice, a series of hearings - possibly amounting to more than 100 - are likely to be held as a result of the judgment, which follows a three-year ...
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Gold price collapse hits pawnbroker profits
Shares in largest British high street gold buyer H&T slide as it warns that every 10% fall in the price of gold would wipe about 2m off its ...
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G4S contract to run sexual assault referral centres damned
G4S , the controversial private security company, is to run services providing medical examinations and counselling for victims of rape and sexual assault in the West Midlands.The company has been awarded a three-year contract to take over two sexual assault referral centres (Sarcs) in Birmingham and Walsall. The national network of 33 centres across England which have developed over the past ...
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What The Olive Oil Disaster Tells Us About The European Union
Last week the European Union published a law that said that olive oil could no longer be served in restaurants with refillable bottles or in bowls. Instead, only labelled, one use only, bottles could be used. This week the EU withdrew this ...
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Fire in British Airways flight from Heathrow shuts down both its runways
LONDON: Air traffic in one of the world's busiest airports - Heathrow was completely thrown into chaos after a flight that took off for Oslo made a quick U-turn back following an engine fire. As many as 75 passengers had a close shave when a British Airways jet was forced to perform an emergency landing at Heathrow with smoke and flames pouring out from one of its engines. Eye-witnesses saw ...
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High Court calls for new system to investigate claims of abuse by British soldiers on Iraqis
Terri Judd is a reporter with The Independent, who writes regularly on defence issues, having repeatedly embedded with British troops in Iraq and ...
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Pioneering method of treating Alzheimer’s discredited by scientists
A drug hailed as a pioneering method of treating Alzheimer's has been discredited by scientists, after experts were unable to replicate its results this ...
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Burning bottle thrown at mosque in Bletchley
Thames Valley Police said a bottle containing flammable liquid was set alight and thrown on to the roof of the Zainabia Islamic Centre, commonly known as the Granby Mosque, in Bletchley at about 11.30pm last night.The attack comes in the wake of the brutal murder of soldier Lee Rigby outside Woolwich Barracks in south-east London.Members of the mosque in Peverel Drive quickly extinguished the ...
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Sex shop chain in Soho wins landmark legal battle against Westminster Council over license fees
A sex shop chain in Soho has won a major victory against license fees charged by Westminster City Council, in a landmark decision that the council believe could "open the flood gates for illegal ...
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ITV News Twitter account hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
LONDON (Reuters) - Broadcaster ITV on Friday became the latest media outlet to have one of its Twitter feeds hacked by anonymous supporters of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, just days after Twitter beefed up security to prevent ...
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David Hockney on assistants death I nearly gave up
sudden death of his young assistant earlier this year.The 75-year-old artist told the Guardian that he had stopped working for a while following the shock death in March of Dominic Elliott, 23, whose family said he was like a son to Hockney. Grieving and "very upset", Hockney put on hold plans to document the seasons in the east Yorkshire wolds in 2013 - a ritual he has carried out ...
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Prince William welcomes Uefa as Champions League final nears - video
Football Association president Prince William speaks to Uefa representatives and predicts a Bayern Munich 2-0 win in the Champions League at Wembley on Saturday. Meanwhile, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund players look forward to the final, with Bayern especially keen to win after losing in the final twice in the last three ...
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Nigel Farage bombed in Edinburgh – what does that really tell us about Scottish antipathy to the English | Ian Jack
struggling with his student opponents in an Edinburgh street recently. They see Farage as a racist who should go back to England. Farage sees them as fascists who represent the ugly side of Scottish nationalism. On the one hand, the students' antagonism towards Farage might be highly specific, and no more characteristic of a general tendency than the football chant "Bobby Moore, ...
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Pornography what we know what we dont
It may be readily available in adult entertainment shops and online but what do we really know about the size of the UK's porn industry? Photograph: Oleksiy ...
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Croatian president urges Britain to remain in the EU
Croatia's president, right, with David Cameron during a visit to London. Ivo Josipovic says the UK has an important economy. Photograph: Alastair ...
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RIL British Petroleum make huge gas discovery in KG-D6 block
Fifteen touch-screen smartphones to consider below Rs 15,000 Within the huge list, we take a look at fifteen touch-screen smartphones that have been ...
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Turkeys European Union Ministry will provide 9 million euros in grant funds for media and NGOs
Turkey's European Union Ministry will provide 9 million euros in grant funds for media and NGOs ANKARA - Turkey's European Union Ministry (EU) will provide 9 million euros in grant funds to media and civil society organizations as part of the Turkey-EU joint "Civil Society Dialogue III Grant Scheme."EU Minister Egemen Bagis said in a written statement on Friday that the ...
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British Police Arrest Two on Diverted Pakistani Airliner
British police have arrested two men on board a Pakistan International Airlines plane that was diverted to an airport near London. A Royal Air Force fighter jet intercepted the airliner - which was en route from Lahore to Manchester - and escorted it to Stansted Airport. Authorities said there had been "an incident" on board the plane. They said the two men were arrested on ...
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April Jones trial Mark Bridger tells jurors I had no reason to abduct April
Mark Bridger has denied having a sexual interest in children, and denied lying about the circumstances of April Jones' death in the final day of his ...
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Townsend and Shaw out of England party
Winger Andros Townsend and left-back Luke Shaw have been replaced in the England squad for next month's finals by uncapped Nathan Redmond and Jack ...
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Horse racing Sheikh Fahad Al Thani looks to add to rising stock in Britain
The next seven days could be a landmark week for the racing pretensions of Sheikh Fahad Al Thani. Today, Havana Gold will represent the 23-year-old Sheikh and his two brothers, Sheikh Hamad and Sheikh Suhaim, at the Curragh in the Irish 2000 Guineas in which Fort Knox runs for the first time in the maroon and white colours of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President of the UAE and Ruler of ...
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First-day washout in England-NZ cricket
Rain meant there was no play on the first day of the second and final cricket Test between England and New Zealand at Headingley on Friday.Heavy overnight and early morning rain meant the square was still fully covered when the captains should have been tossing the coin at 10.30am.And after several showers, the umpires abandoned play for the day shortly before 4pm.England lead the series 1-0 ...
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London bike sharing a success
London in July of 2010 became one of over 44 cities in the world to introduce an aspect of communal consumerism into its public transport system with the implementation of a bike-sharing network and just ten weeks later had recorded over 1 million trips taken, proving the initiative to be feasible and sustainable.
Bike-sharing has been around since as early as the 1960s when the first community bike-sharing scheme was introduced in the Netherlands, but it lacked formal sharing systems and was overly-reliant on the good nature of the public, leading to mass theft, which ultimately destroyed the system. Read more
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